ABSTRACT
I come to these comments from many years of engagement with the academic subject matter called History of Religions. For the last several years, I have been retired from teaching and less directly involved with the details of this subject. However, the implications of this study of the religions of humankind continue to be a kind of preoccupation with me, and all my continuing studies in one way or another relate to it. The History of Religions is a broad area of study, ranging in time from the beginnings of the human archaeological record, through prehistory and historical times to our present human experience. It is a study that tries to make sense of the infinite diversity of human religious experience. Diversity of spirituality is the very essence of such studies.
